Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s framework is failing first and infant schools

The only conclusion from the downgrading of so many infant and first schools is that Ofsted’s framework is unfit…

JL Dutaut
David Scott
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Our scramble for youth is missing the talent

Changes in population and the labour market mean the government’s scramble for young recruits is no longer a workable…

JL Dutaut
Katie Waldegrave
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

Our commissioning editor delves into an EEF report that has reignited the reading wars and left teachers none the…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Oak National Academy

Independence is just the start of the new Oak’s problems

Plans to re-launch Oak National as an independent body are already running into legal challenges, and could be mired…

JL Dutaut
Martyn Davis
PSHE, safeguarding

Supporting schools to tackle and prevent gambling harms

A new framework is designed to help teachers and leaders approach the growing concern of gambling harms with confidence,…

JL Dutaut
Dr Jane Rigbye
Opinion: Mental health

Schools need more support for students’ mental health

On World Mental Health Day, Allie Denholm says there’s a lot schools can do to support pupils with increasing…

JL Dutaut
Allie Denholm
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

School leaders’ changing approaches to recruitment and retention, effective CPD, and the impact of the cost of living on…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Opinion: SEND
Three more councils have been slammed by inspectors over systemic SEND failings

SEND: Why we’re going beyond inclusion to belonging

With the SEND review in the balance, Marios Solomonides explains why his trust is taking matters into its own…

JL Dutaut
Marios Solomonides
NTP

NTP: Better, faster evaluation data is now urgent

An absence of positive and compelling evidence is putting the tutoring programme at risk, writes Adam Alagiah-Glomseth

JL Dutaut
Adam Alagiah-Glomseth

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

The House of Lords must protect academy freedoms

Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill’s foreseeable consequences – and its…

JL Dutaut
Meg Powell-Chandler
Opinion: Solutions
mental health

How to mitigate disadvantage in the classroom

We must get under the bonnet of disadvantage as it applies to individuals to have any chance of mitigating…

JL Dutaut
Finola Wilson
Opinion: Workforce

The sector has taken another big step in parent-teacher support

Developments at the National Education Union’s conference give hope that we may soon stem the flow of parents out…

JL Dutaut
Emma Sheppard

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

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David Spendlove
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EXAMS

Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
Exams
The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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